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Newsmakers, Nov. 11: John Levisky

An often-repeated phrase around the YDR newsroom is, "There's always a York connection." It's amazing how often we're able to find a Kevin Bacon-like local link to national news events.

John "Jack" Levisky II was that connection a number of times.

The York College professor of forensic anthropology played a role in several high-profile cases, including the exhumation of the remains of Albert DeSalvo, the confessed "Boston Strangler" - and the case of biochemist Frank Olson, who jumped out a window in 1953 after the CIA gave him LSD in a secret experiment.

He also helped investigate many local homicide cases.

And so, of course, Professor Levisky's own death made news last week after he lost a battle with prostate cancer.